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Answer for the clue "Construct on a smaller scale ", 11 letters:
miniaturize

Word definitions for miniaturize in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1946, from miniature (adj.) + -ize . Minify in same sense is from 1670s, on analogy of magnify . Related: Miniaturized ; miniaturizing .\n

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. To design or construct something on a miniature scale vb. To design or construct something on a miniature scale

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
miniaturize \miniaturize\ v. t. To design or construct on a smaller scale. Syn: miniaturise.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. design or construct on a smaller scale [syn: miniaturise ]

Usage examples of miniaturize.

Wicker and Brooks had already arrived at Le Bearn and had planted several miniaturized cameras and listening devices in the bar, restaurant, and bathroom.

At the same time he was so groomed and fine that he seemed miniaturized, a jewel-like mechanism like the golden clock or one of the bonsai trees that lined the mantel.

Multiply your personae, miniaturize essential Core memories, and make your parasitism on the human neural networks more direct .

It uses a plastic rocket vehicle with a miniaturized radio transmitter in its nose, a bead thermistor to measure air temperature, and a modularized factory-loaded solid-propellant rocket motor made by Flight Systems, Inc.

He stared into what appeared to be a plushly appointed office with a work surface of polished onyx, a chair of soft leather and a high-speed miniaturized analyzer for fieldwork.

Seven other men lounged or floated in the haze, and a young woman in an extremely tight red bodysuit played a miniaturized lexilux.

They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.

Any matter miniaturized, as I mentioned earlier, temporarily enters another dimension.

He began to see everything in Amsterdam as if miniaturized: his own hotel on the Herengracht, the Anne Frank house, the impossibly good-looking Surinamese women.

She was playing with the electronics using a miniaturized but highly elaborate Conpro masterdeck balanced on her lap.

The miniaturized security key was implanted in the fingertip of Boba Fett's gloved hand.

Todd wondered if the attachment might serve some specific purpose, concealing miniaturized devices, or was it a mark of rank, or both?

We cannot deminiaturize then any faster than we can dispose of the heat produced, so that it takes considerable time to do it -- much more than it took to miniaturize.

It was his notion that once we tied Planck's constant to the speed of light, we would not only have the practical effect of miniaturizing and deminiaturizing in an essentially energy-free manner, but that we would have the theoretical effect of being able to work out the connection between quantum theory and relativity and finally have a good unified field theory.

He had even been miniaturized and deminiaturized and was none the worse for it.